Faith Founded On Fact: Essays in Evidential Apologetics, by John Warwick Montgomery
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A provocative and controversial book intended to encourage Christian to make the case for the truthfulness of Christianity based on factual evidence. Included are chapters on "The Place of Reason in Christian Witness", "Science, Theology, and the Miraculous", "How Muslims Do Apologetics", and "Dr. Johnson as Apologist". Contains the most sophisticated refutation available anywhere of the arguments of David Hume and Anthony Flew against miracles in general and the resurrection of Christ in particular.
Faith Founded On Fact: Essays in Evidential Apologetics, by John Warwick Montgomery- Amazon Sales Rank: #355740 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .55" w x 5.25" l, .56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful. A technical exposition of evidential Christian apologetics By A Customer Montgomery is one of the foremost exponents of evidential apologetics in evangelical Christian circles. In this collection of essays, Montgomery seeks to explain, defend and commend the use of evidence in Christian apologetics. He contrasts his position particularly with the presuppositionalist camp (Carl Henry, Van Til). Most of the essays are at a technical level. Topics treated include a defence of miracles, how Muslims do apologetics, Dr Samuel Johnson as an apologist, Biblical inerrancy, and Lutheran approaches to apologetics. It should be required reading in tertiary studies on Christian apologetics.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great apologetic addition to anyone's library! By Adam Wolfe What a wonderful, clear, apologetic for the Christian faith founded on FACT. Written by one of the world's foremost living apologists John Warwick Montgomery, who allows faces the attacks on Christianity head on and confronts the misconceptions and misunderstandings and presents the facts about Jesus's life, death, and resurrection.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. ESSAYS ON APOLOGETIC METHOD FROM THE FAMED LAWYER/APOLOGIST By Steven H Propp John Warwick Montgomery (b. 1931) is one of the major philosophical apologists of the 20th century. He is also a trained lawyer, which influenced his "historical/legal" approach to Christian apologetics. He is perhaps best known as a writer for his books History and Christianity, How Do We Know There is a God?, Evidence for Faith, Where is History Going?, The Shape of the Past, The Quest for Noah's Ark, God's Inerrant Word, as well as for his debates with the infamous atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1967); with Joseph Fletcher [reprinted in Situation Ethics: True or False); with "Death of God" theologian Thomas Altizer [reprinted in The Suicide of Christian Theology].He wrote in the Preface to this 1978 book, "Today... there is not a theological seminary in the world ... that gives the same stress to apologetics as it does to dogmatics or ethics... The lack of emphasis on the defense of Christian faith in our time is especially unfortunate... when one reflects that ours is a time of secularism demanding that Christians 'be ready always to give an answer [Gr. apologia] to every man that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you' [1 Pet 3:15]... The present book of essays endeavors... to offer just such answers." (Pg. ix)He adds, "But why speak of 'EVIDENTIAL apologetics'?... influential attempts are being made to create systems of apologetics that supposedly do not depend on factual evidence but instead rely on 'assertively true' presuppositions or 'faith-informed' starting points. Such positions are either unabashedly 'presuppositionalist' (arguing that the Christian has every right to start from his unprovable first principles, for the non-Christian is doing the same thing...) or more subtly metaphysical (stating that the Christian's world-view... cannot be proven by any particular evidential considerations...)... The author rejects all such presuppositionalisms. The flight from 'verification' shared both by theological liberals ... and by metaphysically inclined evangelicals ... is a retreat from the apologetic task." (Pg. x-xi) He adds, "Christian faith is founded on fact. The message of this book is simply that the time is now more than ripe for the church to present that faith evidentially and courageously." (Pg. xiv)He points out, "The twentieth-century world... displays a religious pluralism... Sects and cults proliferate; philosophies of life... vie for our attention... All about us ultimate concerns spring up, each claiming to be more ultimate, more worthy of our total commitment, than the other. In the university world the pluralistic cacaphony is louder than perhaps anywhere else... What is the non-Christian to do, when amid this din he hears the Christian message? Are we Christians so naive as to think that he will automatically... accept Christianity as true and put away world-views contradicting it?... do we really think he will not at the same time hear precisely the same subjective-pragmatic appeal from numerous other quarters?" (Pg. 38-39)His article, "Once Upon an a Priori" [which was included in Jerusalem & Athens: Critical Discussions on the Philosophy and Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til] is included, in which criticizes Van Til's approach using a parable from French television, with contradictory views, where "Neither viewpoint can prevail, since BY DEFINITION all appeal to neutral evidence is eliminated.... correct INTERPRETATION of the facts... rests only with the one who has seen the total picture by revelation... Thus the irresistable force meets the immovable object... Without prior commitment to the TRULY 'meaningful context' of fact, facts are not compelling. But which 'context'---the Christian or the Marcusean?" (Pg. 114-117)He notes that "We are warned that to press a consistent view of biblical inerrancy may divide evangelicalism... The question is, of course, whether entire scriptural reliability is all that important. I believe it is... Biblical inerrancy, though the expression does not appear in Scripture, is nevertheless Christ's view... Make no mistake. God will not let falter those who are consistently faithful to His Word.... for faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, and only the Word of God remains forever." (Pg. 227-228)For all Christians interested in the METHODOLOGY and PHILOSOPHY of apologetics (rather than just specific apologetic arguments), this book will be of great interest.
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